Category: Violent Crime
Jonathan Arboleda, Felon in Possession of Ammunition, New York 2026
⏱ 2 min read A brazen broad daylight gunfight erupted in a Brooklyn bodega on July 21, 2026, as two convicted felons, Jonathan Arboleda and Wilson Martinez, allegedly exchanged gunfire, putting countless lives at risk. The shootout occurred in the East New York section of Brooklyn, with the motive still unclear. The two defendants, with…
Ian Nathaniel Grice, Arson and Interstate Travel in Aid of a Racketeering Enterprise, Florida 2026
⏱ 2 min read Ian Nathaniel Grice, a 28-year-old from Dixon, Tennessee, has been indicted for a politically motivated arson attack. The incident, which is still under investigation, allegedly involved Grice traveling from Tennessee to Florida to commit the crime. The exact date of the attack is not specified, but Grice has been charged in…
Santana Powell, Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon, Louisiana 2026
⏱ 2 min read In Shreveport, Louisiana, a hotbed of firearm and drug offenses, three men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in perpetuating the city’s crime wave. Santana Powell, 33, Marvin Morris, 21, and another unidentified defendant were sentenced on August 6 and 7, 2026, for various firearm and drug-related crimes.…
DeAngelo Lewis, Armed Robbery of Postal Carriers, Maryland 2022
⏱ 2 min read DeAngelo Lewis, a 30-year-old Washington DC man, orchestrated a string of brazen armed robberies targeting United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carriers in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC between January and October 2022. Lewis and his co-conspirators used firearms to intimidate and rob seven mail carriers, making off with USPS property…
John Donald Butler, Bank Robbery, Ohio 2026
⏱ 2 min read A brazen daylight bank heist went down on March 30 at the Key Bank on Miamisburg Centerville Road in Dayton, Ohio. John Donald Butler, a 62-year-old man with a long history of bank robberies, walked into the bank dressed as a construction worker at approximately 2:45pm. He passed a note to…
Uelingatoni Pahulu, Gun Possession, South Dakota 2026
⏱ 2 min read Uelingatoni Pahulu, 32, a convicted felon from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, fired a gun in a parking lot on November 1, 2025, after getting into an altercation with another man. The incident occurred at a Shop N Cart on N. Minnesota Avenue. Pahulu, who had a previous felony conviction in California,…
Courtney Derrell Bennett, Possessing a Stolen Firearm, Iowa 2026
⏱ 2 min read Courtney Derrell Bennett, a 54-year-old Omaha man, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. The crime occurred in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where Bennett was arrested by the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on an outstanding warrant for terroristic threats from Douglas…
Mike Escobar, Murder in aid of racketeering, California 2017
⏱ 2 min read Three Orange County gang members, Mike Escobar, James Mendez, and Kevin Trejo, were sentenced to life in federal prison for the 2017 murder of a fellow gangster in Anaheim, California. The victim, a member of a Costa Mesa street gang, had fallen out with a member of the Mexican Mafia prison…
Jashon Tatum, Possession of Machine Gun, Ohio 2024
⏱ 2 min read Jashon Tatum, a 29-year-old felon on supervised release, led Columbus police on a wild high-speed chase in August 2024, crashing into another vehicle and attempting to flee on foot before being caught with a machine gun conversion device and a stash of narcotics. The chaos unfolded on I-71 when Tatum, behind…
Alex Jeffery James-Tulee, Assault, Washington 2022
⏱ 2 min read Alex Jeffery James-Tulee, a 23-year-old from Toppenish, Washington, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for brutally assaulting two women he was in domestic relationships with, both enrolled members of the Yakama Nation. The assaults occurred in November 2022 and July 2025, in Toppenish and Wapato, Washington, respectively. James-Tulee’s actions left…
